| John Nicholas Newman | |
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| Born | 10 March 1935 New Haven, Connecticut |
| Fields | Marine hydrodynamics |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Fritz Ursell |
| Doctoral students | Paul Sclavounos Robert F. Beck Harry Bradford Bingham |
| Known for | Newman's approximation, WAMIT |
| Notable awards | Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Bronze Medal (1976) Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Davidson Medal (1988) Georg Weinblum Memorial Lectureship (1988-1989) |
John Nicholas Newman (born 1935, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American applied mathematician noted for his contributions to marine hydrodynamics. Together with David Evans, he initiated the International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies.[1][2] He is also known for his contribution in the development of the wave-structure interaction code WAMIT. He is currently emeritus professor of Naval Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Newman's degrees (S.B. 1956, S.M. 1957, and Sc.D. 1960) are all from MIT, and were all taken in the field of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. From 1959 to 1967 he worked as a research naval architect at David Taylor Model Basin. In 1967 he moved back to MIT and held a long academic career there.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering,[3] and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[4] In 1992, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim awarded him a honorary doctorate.[5]
In 2008, a symposium was organized in his honor at the 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering.[6]
Newman is married to Kathleen Smedley Kirk. They have three children.